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The chairman of the BBC has apologised for what he called an "error of judgement" in how a speech by Donald Trump was edited for an episode of Panorama.

The BBC's director-general and its head of news resigned on Sunday after a leaked memo criticised the documentary.

But this crisis didn't come out of nowhere - as the BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins explains.

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The United States Congress will vote next week on forcing the release of all the case files in the Jeffery Epstein investigation.

It comes hours after Democrats on the committee published emails written by the convicted sex offender that referenced President Donald Trump and the photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with the known Epstein victim, Virginia Giuffre.

The e-mails also appear to show Andrew pleading with Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to make sure that he was not involved in the allegations against them.

The White House has accused democrats of trying to smear the President and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has always strongly denied any wrongdoing.

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The latest Call of Duty title has dropped and if the thoughts of its stars are anything to go by, "this one blows the others out of the water."

Milo Ventimiglia, who plays David Mason, and Kiernan Shipka, who stars as "bad guy" Emma Kagan, have shared their thoughts on the process and story of creating Black Ops 7.

They told BBC reporter Mel Ramsay about what it was like doing motion capture, their favourite things about their characters and what they're excited for fans to see.

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President Donald Trump has signed a spending bill to reopen the government and end the longest shutdown in US history.

He signed the short-term bill into law just hours after the House of Representatives voted 222-209 to approve it on Wednesday night, and two days after the Senate narrowly approved the same bill.

Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump said the government would now "resume normal operations" after "people were hurt so badly" from the 43-day shutdown.

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Maria Alyokhina, founding member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, joins Vitaly in the Ukrainecast studio to talk about her experience inside a Russian penal colony and her escape from the country disguised as a delivery driver.

What does she make of the current Russian opposition movement, and will Russia always feel like home? She also talks about her book, Political Girl.

There has been extensive speculation about the extent to which Sir Keir Starmer was aware of the anonymous briefings attacking potential leadership challengers in his own party. Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he has "never authorised" attacks on his cabinet ministers, calling briefings against them "unacceptable".

Adam and Chris are joined by Alex Forsyth to discuss why this could be a sign of deeper problems for the Labour government, rather than just Westminster bubble gossip.

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An NHS manager who sexually abused and raped young girls after grooming them on Snapchat has been jailed for 28 years.

Paul Lipscombe was sentenced after he admitted to sexual grooming, sexual assault and two counts of rape of a child under 13, in a case described as "shocking and terrifying" by detectives.

Lipscombe, 51, who is believed to have earned at least £91,000 a year as an associate director of NHS performance in Coventry, UK, ferried his victims to rented hotels and Airbnbs in a Tesla.

A 15-year-old girl, who was one of six children groomed by Lipscombe in Leicestershire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, told the BBC she wants facial recognition brought in so predatory adults can't get access to young people on the app.

Snapchat said it was committed to combatting sexual exploitation of young people and worked with law enforcement to help keep "such activity off our platform".

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Israel's President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from US President Donald Trump formally urging him to "fully pardon" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has been standing trial for the past five years on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate cases. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Herzog's office said he held Trump "in the highest regard", but that anyone seeking a pardon had to submit a formal request.

There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu, but he has previously thanked Trump for similar calls he has made in speeches and on social media.

Trump's letter comes following a recent surge in Israeli settler violence coinciding with the olive harvest season, when Palestinians head to their agricultural land around towns and villages in the occupied West Bank.

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Ukraine’s Justice and Energy ministers leave their posts as the country is rocked by a damaging corruption scandal.

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies revealed that some of President Zelensky’s close associates were allegedly involved in a plot to skim around $100 million from the country’s energy sector.

The BBC’s Diplomatic correspondent James Landale has been telling the Global News Podcast more about the background of the story, and how Ukrainians are feeling about it, as the country continues to endure Russian attacks.

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A committee of lawmakers in the US have released over 20,000 pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, including some that reference US President Donald Trump.

One is an email exchange dated April 2011 from Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in 2019, to his associate Ghislaine Maxwell and reads "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him”.

The Democrats say the emails "strike a blow against the White House's Epstein cover-up”.

Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and the White House said the release of the three email exchanges creates a "fake narrative”.

The White House also says the "victim" referenced in the Epstein-Maxwell emails is "the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.

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